Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. The extent to which I can relate to the existential angst of the main character does slightly worry me, but maybe it's pretty universal. It's a great novel in any case._________________A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

recursive pony fanfiction, three levels deep, with two levels of alternate universes, and in total longer than Harry Potter (the entire series), Lord of The Rings, and War and Peace combined and then multiplied

did I say Harry Potter? I don't usually read Harry Potter fanfiction, but when I do, apparently I choose
*drum roll*
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
by Eliezer Yudkowsky, full-time AI researcher who also wears a human rationality essayist hat or, it would seem, fanfiction hat from time to time

bloody hell

the book-style pdf version (obviously the superior format) is 1600+ pages and it doesn't even include the latest 10 chapters yet
why do I keep getting myself into these things_________________butts

just starting chapter one but it's conspicuously short on cephalopods thus far. We'll see how it plays out._________________All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. - Marky Mark Proust

The first two books in The Stormlight Archive are amazing, too bad it will be a year before the third is out. Just read the Mistborn books by the same author, Brandon Sanderson, and liked those almost as much._________________(\__/)
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 2:48 am Post subject:

I read the Rubinrot series recently.

fritterdonut wrote:

The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood.

I just finished that this weekend and loved it. I'm moving on to Oryx and Crake now and then plan to start in on The Canongate Myth Series so I can read The Penelopiad (and since I already happen to have the first 3 books in the Canongate, with Atwood's being the second, I figured I would read them in order.)

After that I'm moving on to Doris Lessing. I hadn't heard that she passed away last fall and I've always meant to read some of her stuff so I'm going to make the time._________________FormerlyGreen_Finn

The first two books in The Stormlight Archive are amazing, too bad it will be a year before the third is out. Just read the Mistborn books by the same author, Brandon Sanderson, and liked those almost as much.

I'm on a quest to read all of his books, but he churns them out so fast. *shakes fist* Really liked Steelheart and Elantris too. _________________Eureka00: "Reminding you of your addictions" since 1982.

I just finished The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, and I loved it SO MUCH that I started it over from the beginning immediately after I turned the last page.

The plot is Groundhog Day (but with a lifetime), which sounds lame maybe but the writing is amazing. If you go in expecting thriller/sf, you may be disappointed, but it's solid literature. There's a lot of background and character development, and I loved every single page.